[jambutty]

Sadly chav1 your road tax does not give you any parking rights on the public highway except in designated areas. In fact to the letter of the law you can be booked for obstruction if you park in front of your own house.

There are two other points that I discovered recently. A Blue Badge holder cannot park in on road Residential Parking areas. They will be ticketed if they do.

Let me also destroy the myth about on road disabled parking places marked out at the request of the nearby householder. ANYONE CAN PARK IN THE BAY AND WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED FOR DOING SO – unless there is a plaque on an adjacent wall or lamppost qualifying the terms of parking. Even if there were a plaque displayed the bay would not be for the exclusive use of the nearby resident. Any disabled badge holder can park in that bay.

I found out a couple of weeks ago when some (put your own expletives in here) parked in the disabled bay in front of my flat leaving me with nowhere to park at that time. I should explain I live right across the road from a high school and three times a day during term time my road is party to literally dozens and dozens and dozens of cars dropping off and collecting their kids. Chuck in a handful of busses and coaches and you will realise that not only is there barely room for a car to progress past, the air is foul with exhaust fumes that do not really dissipate until the next influx. I was returning from a dental appointment otherwise I would have timed my departure and return to avoid the daily melee.

People will park anywhere they can, given the chance and care not a hoot who it inconveniences. Being a regular occurrence I tried to get the police to come and book the **!!**!!** but they informed me of what I have written above.